... harm than good to some organisations and their workforces (Cascio, 1993). This harm is not only to organisational productivity and profitability, but may also be to the organisational learning process. Organisational learning as a discipline of research can be regarded as ephemeral. There is strong evidence to suggest that models of organisational learning have grown more out of the consulting needs of business than grounded empirical research. In addition, some confusion surrounds what organisations should be learning and how effective learning takes place and is translated into action (Dunphy et al., 1996), while the validation of empirical research in the literature has also been questioned (Dodgson, 1993). There is, however, a general consensus that organisations need to find better ways to learn (Argyris, 1994; Senge, 1990), and there have been many reported successes in the workplace (Argyris, 1994; Leonard-Barton, 1992). As disciplines of study, and as a focus for a well-defined ...

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